Hair-waving device



April 17, 1934. above HAIR WAVING DEVICE Filed Dec. 23, 1952 s Q III! a INVENTOR RAMON BOVE' ATTORNEY i atenteel Apr 17, E934 airs.

HAIR-WAVING DEVICE Ramon Bore, Bayside, N. Y.

Application December 23, 1932, Serial No. 648,535

13 Qlairns.

The invention relates to a hair waving apparatus of the type employed for forming flat or water-waves on a persons head and the invention particularly relates to that form of such apparatus wherein combs are arranged on the head to engage a strand of hair and then by relative shifting of the combs longitudinally a loop or wave is formed in the hair, after which the hair is permitted to set and when dry the apparatus is removed.

In such devices as heretofore known the bulkiness of the apparatus has made it necessary for the waving to be done in a shop with the person under treatment holding her head upright and under the discomfort of the weight of the ap paratus.

The primary object of this invention is to provide an xtremely simplified apparatus for waving the hair which will avoid the heretofore objectionable bulkiness of parts; which will be light in construction and which is particularly designed for home use under conditions where the user may install the apparatus in her own hair at night and going to bed rest her head on the pillow without discomfort.

Still another object of the invention is to provide form of apparatus of the type outlined, any number of which can be used independently of each other to form waves in the hair and with the waves spaced apart varying distances at the wish of the user and arranged relative to each other as desired.

The present disclosure particularly features a form of hair waving device which can be manufactured cheaply and for the most part of simple stamped plates, pivotally connected by pivot setting machinery and thus provide an article which can be sold as a chain store proposition 6 and while ecohornizing in amount of material set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing: Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing a preferred embodiment of the invention and with the toothed clamp members in open unclamped position ready to be installed in a strand of hair;

Fig. 2 is an explanatory view showing two forms of the apparatus in three succeeding positions engaging the hair;

Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view taken approximately on the line 3-3, Fig. 2, with the clamp members in closed position;

Fig. i is a transverse sectional View taken approximately on the line 1-4 of Fig. 2 with the clamp members in open position.

Figs. 5 and 6 are transverse sectional views taken approximately on the line 55 of Fig. 2 showing respectively the clamp members in their open and closed positions.

In the drawing there is disclosed in all forms, a hair waving apparatus comprising two parallel tooth plates 10 and 11 of substantially equal length and connected adjacent opposite ends by means of a pair of relatively short links 12 and 13 connected at their ends to the plates 11 and 12 by means of hollow rivet like pins 14. This construction provides a device in the form of a parallelogram, the opposite long sides 10 and 11 of which may be shifted endwise relative to each other from the position shown in Fig. 1 and at the top of Fig. 2, either to the right as shown in connection with the middle device of Fig. 2 or to the left as shown in connection with the bottom device of Fig. 2, depending upon which way the user desires to shift the hair strands engaged thereby.

The adjacent edges 15 and 16 respectively of the plates 10 and 11 constitute clamping edges between which is held a loop L of a strand of hair S as indicated in Fig. 3. These edges 15 and 16 are each provided with a line of hair engaging teeth 17 and 18 and which teeth particularly distinguish from similar known constructions in that they are relatively short and are designed to have a length just sufficient to extend through the hair strand and engage the scalp H of the head of the user as shown in 3. The teeth are so designed that when so engaged with the head of the wearer the flat plate-like portions 10 and 11 are close to the head and nestled down on the hair, depressing the same as shown in Fig. 3.

In order that the apparatus as a whole fit the head the plates are curved slightly in the direction of their length and it is also suggested that the apparatus may be cLuved in the direction transversely to its length, but due to the relatively narrow width of the device this refinement of transverse curvature is not necessary and would add to the cost of manufacture.

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The teeth are arranged equally spaced apart and opposite each other when the parts are distended as shown at the top of Fig. 2 and the connecting links 12 and 13 are so proportioned that when the parts are moved into the closed clamping position as shown at the bottom of Fig. 2, a tooth of one member is disposed in the space between a pair of teeth of the other member. In moving into position the line of shiftable teeth moves not only in the direction of its length but also moves at right angles to this direction. For instance, referring to Fig. 2, the fourth tooth 19 from the left end of plate 10 is opposite the fourth tooth 20 of plate 11 when the parts are distended, but when the parts are shifted as shown in the bottom view of Fig. 2, the lower plate 11 has been swung to the left so that tooth 19 is now located to the right of the fifth tooth 21 of plate 11 and is disposed in the space 22 between the fifth tooth 21 and the sixth tooth 23. Similarly each tooth within the mutually lapped lengths of the lines of teeth are disposed with the teeth of one plate in the spaces between the teeth of the other plate.

In this construction it is desired to have the teeth reach in under or underlap the hair strands so as to lift the same into the loop L and raise the loop upward between the clamping edges 15 and 16. For this purpose the teeth are shown in Figs. 4 to 6 as extending downwardly or transversely of the general plane of the device and are curved towards each other as indicated at 24 so that they may lap each other not only in plan as hereinbefore discussed, and as shown in the lower I illustrated. In the showing in Figs. 1 and 4, the

connecting links 12 and 13 are provided on their underside and adjacent their pivoted ends with a semi-spherical recess 25 which is designed to snap over upstanding protuberances 26 and 2'7 formed in the plates 10 and 11 so that when the members 10 and 11 are shifted endwise into their collapsed or clutching position shown at the bottom of Fig. 2, they will automatically be held in position against accidentalseparation.

Where a more positive locking means is required, a keeper 28 such as is illustrated at the top of Fig. 2 is employed. Keeper 28 is pivoted at 29 to one of the plates 10 and is provided with a flange 30 designed to be intruded into a slot 31 a in the other plate 11 to secure the plates in their hair clutching position. In either case the fastening means are located in the body portions of the plates Where there is sufiicient rigidity of structure and spaced from any portions which may have been weakened by the formation of the teeth.

In the device as heretofore described the members 10 and 11 are formed simply of a flat plate from one edge in which the teeth have been cut,

- preferably by a stamping operation. This construction is particularly adaptable to those situations where it is desired that the plates have some degree of flexibility to accommodate themselves to the conformation of the particular portion of the head of the wearer where they are to be installed. In one commercial form of this apparatus, the tooth plates are formed of thin flexible celluloid.

Where a certain'rigidity of construction is pre- I ferred, the plates may, of course, be made of metal, but if it is desirable to minimize in weight of material and in order to obtain structural strength with requisite lightness of weight, it is herein suggested that the plate be in the form of an angle bar as shown in Fig. 6. In this case one flange 32 corresponds to the plate 10 hereinbefore described and the other flange 33 extends downwardly at right angles to the flange 32 with or without the interposition of a strengthening bead 34 at the angle. In the form shown in Fig. 6 the flange 32 is bent back upon itself for a short distance to form the bead 34 at the angle between the flanges after which the other flange 33 is disposed at right angles to the top flange 32. This strengthening bead has the advantage of presenting rounded hair engaging clamping surfaces which have less possibility of cutting the hair than the more or less sharp edges necessarily presented where a thin plate is used, as has been f atured in the preferred construction. The flanges 33 are provided at their lower edges with coacting rows of teeth 34 corresponding to the teeth 24 hereinbefore described. The presence of the downwardly projecting flange 33 can be utilized as shown in Fig. 6 to carry the looking or fastening device.

In operation it will be understood that the hair is combined into strands as is the usual practice in installing waving devices of the character under discussion and the apparatus is set on a hair strand, with the clamping plates distended as shown in Fig. l and at the top of Fig. 2, and with the teeth embedded in and extending through the hair strands and into engagement or substantially into engagement with the scalp. It is the usual practice successively to install several of the devices in position extend.- ing transversely across the hair strands and iongitudinally spaced apart as suggested in Fig. 2. Holding one of the plates fixed relative to the hair strand, as for instance the upper plate at the top of Fig. 2, the lower plate 11 of one apparatus is shifted in one direction, say to the right, and the corresponding lower plate of the next succeeding apparatus is shifted to the left, each into their fully collapsed, closed position. In the showing in Fig. 2, the lower plate 11 has been shifted to the right from the position shown in the top showing in its movement from left to right as indicated by the arrow into the intermediate position shown and finally into the fully collapsed position. In the bottom showing of Fig. 2, the lower plate 11 has been similarly shifted to the left in the direction indicated by the adjacent arrow into its fully closed and locked position. The formation of the resulting loop L will be the same in either case except, of course, that the lay of the loop will be towards the right of the initial direction of the hair strands in the case of the middle showing and to the left in the case of the bottom showing (Fig. 2). In all cases the teeth in their under-- lapping engagement with the hair strands lift the portion caught between the plates into the loop form, elevating it slightly above the plane of the top of the apparatus as shown in Fig. 3.

It is possible by means of a device of the character herein disclosed for the user to dispose the apparatus in such position as will give the location of the wave where desired and as the apparatus are not connected to each other, it is possible, of course, to vary the strict parallel arrangement suggested in Fig. 2 and to dispose the apparatus at various angles to each other so as to obtain the most effective grouping of the waves about the head. As the apparatus, either singularly or collectively, grouped about the head, form in effect a close fitting helmet free of projecting parts, the user can go to bed with her head engaging the pillow and is free to move about without discomfort and as if her head were free of apparatus. As it is thus possible to hold the hair in place with its waved formation over a long period of time. The objectionable wetting heretofore practiced can be restricted, if not entirely eliminated and the method can be practiced with the hair dry. When the operation is completed the user simply unfastens the clamps or springs the parts into open position and releases the same from the waved hair and the hair is thus waved Without any further attention on the part of the user.

I claim:

1. A hair waving apparatus comprising two long parallel plates, each slightly curved in the direction of their length, a pair of relatively short connection links having opposite ends pivotally connected to the plates adjacent their ends and coacting to form a parallelogram having relatively great length and Width compared to its thickness whereby it can fit substantially fiat against the head of the wearer and said plates movable endwise relative to each other in both directions parallel thereto when moving to or from their closest relative position, the adjacent edges of the plates provided with a line of hair engaging teeth, with the teeth projecting laterally from their corresponding plate and with the teeth of one plate slightly curved towards the teeth of the other plate whereby as the plates are moved towards each other to clasp a loop of hair therebetween the teeth of one plate will approach a position lapping the teeth of the other, and means engaging the plates in spaced relation from the line of teeth for securing the plates in their hair clamping position.

2. A hair waving apparatus comprising two long parallel plates, each slightly curved in the direction of their length, a pair of relatively short connection links having opposite ends pivotally connected to the plates adjacent their ends and coacting to form a parallelogram having relatively great length and width compared to its thickness whereby it can fit substantially fiat against the head of the wearer and said plates movable endwise relative to each other in both directions parallel thereto when moving to or from their closest relative position, the adjacent edges of the plates provided with a line of hair engaging teeth, with the teeth projecting laterally from their corresponding plate and with the teeth of one plate slightly curved towards the teeth of the other plate whereby as the plates are moved towards each other to clasp a loop of hair therebetween the teeth of one plate will approach a position lapping the teeth of the other plate.

3. A hair waving apparatus comprising a plurality of toothed hair engaging devices, each of said devices comprising a slightly curved plate adapted to conform substantially to the curvature of persons head and having teeth extending radially a short distance from the plate and having a length sufficient to reach through the hair to the scalp of the wearer but not materially greater than the width of the plate whereby the apparatus may be worn in bed by the wearer without discomfort, means connecting the devices in parallel relation and arranged tobe moved relative to each other endwise towards each other and said teeth when in position adjacent each other disposed with certain teeth of one device positioned in the spaces between certain teeth of the other device, and means for securing the devices in their closest relative position.

4. A hair waving apparatus comprising a plurality of toothed hair engaging devices, each of said devices comprising a slightly curved plate adapted to conform substantially to the curvature of a persons head and having teeth extending radially a short distance from the plate and having a length sufiicient to reach through the hair to the scalp of the wearer but not materially greater than the width of the plate whereby the apparatus may be worn in bed by the wearer without discomfort and means connecting the devices in parallel relation and arranged to be moved relative to each other endwise towards each other and said teeth when in position adjacent each other disposed with certain teeth of one device positioned in the spaces between certain teeth of the other device.

5. A hair waving apparatus comprising a pair of parallel lines of toothed members operatively connected to move relative to each other to and from hair clamping position, a tooth of one member movable along a path in a direction having a component parallel to and a component at right angles to the length of the parallel members and into a position disposed opposite in the spaces between a pair of teeth of the other member.

6. A hair waving device comprising two parallel hair engaging members, operatively connected and having endwise relative movement as they are moved towards each other, each of said members provided with a line of short teeth, disposed when the members are in juxtaposition with certain of the teeth of one row disposed in the spaces between certain of the teeth of the other row.

7. A hair waving apparatus comprising four members pivot-ally connected in order adjacent their respective ends to form a parallelogram slightly curved in the direction of its length, two opposite members provided with short hair engaging teeth projecting laterally therefrom and with the line of teeth of one member extending parallel to the line of teeth of the other member, and with the teeth of one member disposed to lap the teeth of the other member when said two opposite members are in juxtaposition.

8. A hair waving apparatus comprising four members pivotally connected in order adjacent their respective ends to form a parallelogram slightly curved in the direction of its length, two opposite members provided with short hair engaging teeth projecting laterally therefrom and with the line of teeth of one member extending parallel to and lapping the line of teeth of the other member.

9. A hair waving apparatus comprising a pair of long hair engaging devices each comprising an angle bar with a flange of one extending parallel to a corresponding flange of the other bar, the other flange of each bar provided with a line of teeth, the two lines of teeth disposed in parallel relation in all positions of the devices, and the teeth of one line being bent towards the teeth of the other line, and links connecting the device for maintaining them in parallel relation and pivotally connected to the first named flanges of the bars.

10. A hair waving apparatus slightly curved in the direction of its length substantially to fit the curvature of a prsons head and otherwise substantially flat and .free of external projections which might cause discomfort to the wearer when resting the head against a pillow or other object, said apparatus comprising two parallel hair engaging toothed members operatively connected to move towards each other into a hair clamping position while moving in a relatively endwise direction to shift a, hair engaging opposite tooth spaces in va direction transversely of the length of the hair so engaged andmeans for securing the toothed members with the hair so shifted.

11. In a device of the class described, the combination of two angle bars operatively connected and arranged to be placed in the hair in spaced apart relation and to be moved relatively endwise towards each other into a hair clamping posi tion, one flange of each bar bent back upon itself at the angle formed with the other flange to form a rounded bead-and said beads coacting to form opposing rounded hair clamping edges.

12. In a device of the class described, the com bination of two angle bars operatively connected and arranged to be placed in the hair in spaced apart relation and to be moved relatively endwise towards each other into a hair clamping position, one flange of each bar bent back ,upon itself at the angle formed with the other flange to form a rounded bead and said beads coacting to form opposing rounded hair clamping edges and a fastening device secured to one of the other flanges.

13. A hair waving device comprising two parallel hair engaging plates slightly curved in the direction of their length and with adjacent edges coacting to form a clamp for securing a loop of hair therebetween, a line of teeth projecting from each of said clamping edges, links connecting the plates and pivoted to each plate and means for securing the plates in their hair clamping position.

RAMON BovE'. 

